connerlambden/helium-mcp

Overview

Helium MCP is a server that aggregates real-time news from over 5000 sources, scoring each article for political bias and offering a balanced synthesis. It also provides live stock, ETF, and crypto data, AI-based options pricing, and a meme search tool. The server exposes 10 tools and includes a free tier.

Best for

Best for
Developers who need a lightweight MCP plugin for real-time financial news with bias analysis and market data

Use cases

• Fetching and filtering financial news by bias score
• Querying live prices for stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies
• Building a dashboard that combines market data with synthesized news summaries

How to use

Tools exposed

• days_back
• min_shares
• recent_articles
• option_type
• search_news
• search_balanced_news
• get_source_bias
• get_bias_from_url
• get_ticker
• get_option_price
• get_top_trading_strategies
• get_all_source_biases
• search_memes

Tested with

Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot

Example client config

{\n  "mcpServers": {\n    "helium": {\n      "url": "https://heliumtrades.com/mcp"\n    }\n  }\n}

Notes

Helium MCP is a server that aggregates real-time news from over 5000 sources, scoring each article for political bias and offering a balanced synthesis. It also provides live stock, ETF, and crypto data, AI-based options pricing, and a meme search tool. The server exposes 10 tools and includes a free tier.

6 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-05-27. Licensed MIT.

Use cases

• Fetching and filtering financial news by bias score
• Querying live prices for stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies
• Building a dashboard that combines market data with synthesized news summaries

Pros

• Wide source coverage with 5000+ news sources
• Bias scoring and balanced synthesis help reduce echo chambers
• Free tier available for testing and small-scale use

Cons

• Very early project (6 GitHub stars) with limited community support
• Requires an MCP client to integrate, adding a dependency
• Only available as a JavaScript/Node.js server

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